Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I need to add 'n' no. of tab char (\t) in a file thro' a script. Say for example if I give 5 as input then my script should give the all the lines with 5tabs.

Input File :
#######
12323234
56465456
asdfdf456
dfgdf4564

So my Output File should look like:
#######################
\t\t\t\t\t12323234
\t\t\t\t\t56465456
\t\t\t\t\tasdfdf456
\t\t\t\t\tdfgdf4564

Thanks in advance
Saravana

Code:

$
$ cat data.txt
12323234
56465456
asdfdf456
dfgdf4564
$
$ # add 4 tabs in front of each line
$ perl -ne 'print "\t" x 4,$_' data.txt
                                12323234
                                56465456
                                asdfdf456
                                dfgdf4564
$
$

tyler_durden

Code:

awk -v var=5 ' { for (i=1;i<=var;i++) printf("%s","/t"); print ;}' inpfile.txt